André Niemann thinks this is interesting:

The result of our approach to hiring for SRE is that we end up with a
team of people who (a) will quickly become bored by performing tasks
by hand, and (b) have the skill set necessary to write software to
replace their previously manual work, even when the solution is
complicated. SREs also end up sharing academic and
intellectual background with the rest of the development
organization. Therefore, SRE is fundamentally doing work that has
historically been done by an operations team, but using engineers with
software expertise, and banking on the fact that these engineers are
inherently both predisposed to, and have the ability to, design and implement automation with software to replace human labor.

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